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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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Additional Resources
Eastern North Carolina
Digital Library
Eastern North Carolina
Digital Library
East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Joyner Library Catalog
Joyner Library Catalog
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Presented award. (1964).The Daily Reflector Negative Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/6798
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Workers holding protest signs. (2007). Workers Vanguard no. 891. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/843
Organization/Guidance thematic collections faceted refinement better integration with finding aids
Data-driven Discovery subject cloud searching full text across multiple sources hyperlinks in records
Personalization comments and tags personal collections tools for reusing collections
Anecdotal Evidence
• Use in English 1200, History Classes• Use of A.R. Ammons collection by several
scholars• Will add a collection specifically for the
Interior Design program in the autumn.• Not “Mass Digitization” but “Mass
Representation”
Used, but not necessarily understood
A thesaurus would be more effective
Usability Tests
UR doin it rongTagging was confusing
Heuristic Evaluation
• Image Resolution• Integration with library “Discovery,”
pedagogical tools, library instruction• More Outreach• More usability testing• More cataloging needed• Review of the use of subjects and broad
collections
Orville Wright Glider Flights - Cyanotype #3. (1911).The Alpheus W. Drinkwater Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/1388
Bibliography• Fallows, Deborah. Pew Internet and American Life Project: Search Engine Use.
Available: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Search_Aug08.pdf (February 5, 2009).
• Head, Alison J. “Information Literacy from the Trenches: How Do Humanities and Social Science Majors Conduct Academic Research?” College and Research Libraries. 2008; 69:5.
• Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann. 2009. Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development. Report commissioned by OCLC Research. Published online at: www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-02.pdf
• Proffitt and Schaffner. 2008. The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities. Report produced by OCLC Programs and Research. Published online at: www.oclc.org/programs/reports/2008-04.pdf
• Sinclair, James and Michael Cardew-Hall. “The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful?” Journal of Information Science. 2008; 34; 15.
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